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O Lord Jesus Christ, make us strong in the faith, so that we may persevere until the end.

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

The 29 minute video went into this diatribe about the various Christian groups, and how they treat Christians according to Islamic law, whether by jizya under dimma status, by conversion for full rights, or death. They showed examples of the jizya paying Christians in Iraq (probably staged) on how "peaceful" they live in ISIS when paying jizya. They then showed examples of those who apostatized into Islam, and they were Africans, who vowed the shahada. Finally, they showed the brutal killing of the 30 Ethiopians who refused to pay jizya (or probably did not have the money to pay it) or convert.

They were given a chance to convert and they did not take that chance. They chose the eternal glory with Christ over the falsehood of renouncing Christ and the Church. May their prayers and the prayers of the 21 Coptic martyrs be with us all!

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.

The 29 minute video went into this diatribe about the various Christian groups, and how they treat Christians according to Islamic law, whether by jizya under dimma status, by conversion for full rights, or death. They showed examples of the jizya paying Christians in Iraq (probably staged) on how "peaceful" they live in ISIS when paying jizya. They then showed examples of those who apostatized into Islam, and they were Africans, who vowed the shahada. Finally, they showed the brutal killing of the 30 Ethiopians who refused to pay jizya (or probably did not have the money to pay it) or convert.

They were given a chance to convert and they did not take that chance. They chose the eternal glory with Christ over the falsehood of renouncing Christ and the Church. May their prayers and the prayers of the 21 Coptic martyrs be with us all!

I'm with the camp of 13 million Americans that believe politicians are, or are controlled by, Reptilians. I think only monks can solve this problem. It doesn't seem right that they prefer to ignore it.

In Egypt, a surge of persecution against Coptic Christians, one of the oldest Christian communities in the region, has been occuring despite Egypt's president's promises of helping Christians in the region.

Four Egyptian kids who dared make fun of ISIS in a harmless video are headed for trial along with their teacher on charges of "insulting Islam," after their Muslim neighbors got hold of the footage and went to police.

Aged between 15 and 16, the youths could face up to five years in a youth detention center – while the teacher would serve any sentence he receives in prison – if the court finds them guilty of violating Egypt’s blasphemy law, Egypt-focused activists say.

"They [the Muslim side] stipulated that the building be of one floor, and without a dome or a cross, in addition to not sounding the church bell," Naguib Gabriel, chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, told Al-Monitor, lamenting the furor that surrounded building the church. Gabriel added that although the foundation stone was laid, "I do not believe the building will be completed under such a hard-line religious culture."

A 55-year-old Coptic Christian man was kidnapped and held for ransom. Although his family eventually paid, and the Muslim abductors took the money, they still killed the hapless Copt.

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Killing Christian hostages even after loved ones pay their ransom is not uncommon in Egypt. Such was the case, for instance, of 6-year-old Cyril Joseph: on May 2013, it was reported that his “family is in tatters after paying 30,000 pounds to the abductor, who still killed the innocent child and threw his body in his sewer system, where the body, swollen and moldy, was exhumed.”

A village in Beni Suef has witnessed religious conflict over the past week, following the alleged insulting of Islam by a Coptic man on Facebook, allegations denied by the accused.

Ayman Youssef Tawfiq, from the village of Kafr Darwish in Al-Fashn, around 100km south of Cairo, was accused of posting cartoons that are offensive to the Prophet Mohamed online. In what followed, Coptic homes in the village were allegedly attacked with rocks and Molotov cocktails, leading to numerous fires in houses and the destruction of a car.

After days of conflict, meetings were held in the village, but the outcome was the forcible displacement of Youssef and four of his relatives' families. Despite the meeting, a further 10 homes were reported by Coptic sources as having been burned in ongoing attacks.

The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

Through the prayers of the Evangelist Mark and Popes Peter, Athanasius and Cyril, Lord have mercy upon the land of His refuge!

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A 55-year-old Coptic Christian man was kidnapped and held for ransom. Although his family eventually paid, and the Muslim abductors took the money, they still killed the hapless Copt.

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Killing Christian hostages even after loved ones pay their ransom is not uncommon in Egypt. Such was the case, for instance, of 6-year-old Cyril Joseph: on May 2013, it was reported that his “family is in tatters after paying 30,000 pounds to the abductor, who still killed the innocent child and threw his body in his sewer system, where the body, swollen and moldy, was exhumed.”

Lord hvlave mercy im still getting a glitch anyways what I wasgoing to say what happened to Egypt muslim population in the past the Ikwan and the Salafis were minorties and up until 1970's the Sinai population was Sufis from what I herd. Today it seem all salafi and Ikwan regardless ST. Mary the Theotokos, ST. MARK and ST. Cyrill intercede and pray on thexCopts behalf.

As a boy growing up in a country where football is a national passion, Mina Fayek joined a youth programme at a local sports club in the wealthy Cairo neighbourhood of Heliopolis. He started training, but one day he overheard his coach make an offhand remark: no Christians would join the first team, or make it to the championships.

"My parents and I knew this is not going anywhere, and I had to choose another game," Fayek, 26, a software engineer and blogger, recalled. He tried handball and basketball, two sports seen as more acceptable for Egyptian Christians to play.

Fayek, an affable young man, believes his social status shielded him from the worst forms of persecution inflicted on poorer Egyptian Christians. Instead, he was subject to a more subtle form of discrimination: the sense that the highest echelons of power and status in his country were off limits because of his religion.

so Salpy it looks like it more of the attitude of suppression instead of outright persecution right now in Egypt. Do you think al-sisi doing enough? or is his hands tied? any websites you recommend concerning the plight of Egypt's Copts?

Despite these reports, the Education minister reneged on his words, adamant to ruin the poor girl's life on a clerical error. Just now I heard someone even say that the exam has written on it "In the name of God the beneficent and merciful" proving foul play against the girl. Even a person who hasn't studied does not get a zero. HG Bishop Suriel of Melbourne in protest wrote on his Facebook page that he would take care of Mariam's education in Australia.

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.

“How needful the human being is of service of the spirit, in an age where materialism, atheism, apostasy and deviant intellectual trends prevail. How needful people are to see Christ in our lives and to smell His sweet fragrance in us." St. Kyrillos (Cyril) VI

Perhaps it's sectarian, perhaps not. Corporal punishment is an integral part of the Egyptian school system.

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"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die [...] These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -The Lord Jesus Christ

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Maybe once the takifiri insuregency in the Sinai dies down that the Copts demand a limited autonomy within the Sinai but still part of Egypt. Maybe then the persecutions will stop for the Copts. Reading about all your persecution upsets me a lot however we have to love our enemies which is tough. Copts are good role models on loving the enemy from my limited expirence with them.

Maybe once the takifiri insuregency in the Sinai dies down that the Copts demand a limited autonomy within the Sinai but still part of Egypt. Maybe then the persecutions will stop for the Copts. Reading about all your persecution upsets me a lot however we have to love our enemies which is tough. Copts are good role models on loving the enemy from my limited expirence with them.

Forgive me, but that idea is unfeasible. The overwhelming majority of Copts (99+%) wouldn't even want something like that.

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"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die [...] These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -The Lord Jesus Christ

No longer active on OC.net. Please pray for me and forgive any harm I might have caused by my ignorance and malice.

Maybe once the takifiri insuregency in the Sinai dies down that the Copts demand a limited autonomy within the Sinai but still part of Egypt. Maybe then the persecutions will stop for the Copts. Reading about all your persecution upsets me a lot however we have to love our enemies which is tough. Copts are good role models on loving the enemy from my limited expirence with them.

Forgive me, but that idea is unfeasible. The overwhelming majority of Copts (99+%) wouldn't even want something like that.

Okay it just seems living next to muslims for the past 1,000+ years isn't working.

It may not be working but neither will asking Copts to uproot themselves from homes, jobs, communities, etc. en masse to move into a desert ghetto.

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“Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Contemplate this on the tree of woe.” - Elder Thulsa Doom of the Mountain of Power

Mencius said, “Instruction makes use of many techniques. When I do not deign to instruct someone, that too is a form of instruction.”

Marwa Ahmed, 26, has reportedly been killed by her family after converting to Christianity and marrying a man from Fayoum, Egypt.

According to al-Tahrir, Marwa had moved to Alexandria from the town of Tamiyyah with her Coptic Christian partner three years ago. Since then, she had given birth to a boy and girl.

Eshhad, an online platform that aggregates and collates alleged religious persecution and sectarian attacks in Egypt, reports that Marwa was killed nearly two weeks ago by her uncle and cousins when they learned of her short visit back to Tamiyyah.

A 70-year-old Christian woman has been stripped naked, beaten and paraded through the streets by a mob of around 300 Muslim men in a village in southern Egypt.

The mob also burned down seven homes belonging to Christian families, according to an unusually outspoken statement issued by the local Orthodox Coptic church, after rumours circulated in the village that a Christian man was having a relationship with a Muslim woman.

When an episode like this happens, my next question is always "when's the next one going to happen?" Thankfully, this episode has many Muslims just as upset as Copts in Egypt. That's at least the vibe I been getting from the Egyptian media.

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“How needful the human being is of service of the spirit, in an age where materialism, atheism, apostasy and deviant intellectual trends prevail. How needful people are to see Christ in our lives and to smell His sweet fragrance in us." St. Kyrillos (Cyril) VI

When an episode like this happens, my next question is always "when's the next one going to happen?" Thankfully, this episode has many Muslims just as upset as Copts in Egypt. That's at least the vibe I been getting from the Egyptian media.

I've gotten the same vibe as well. It's one of those "finally" moments

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.